There is no such thing as a theory of everything: it is a contradiction in terms. A theory must extract from the whole of reality : it cannot explain the whole of reality. A mathematical proof of god? Mathematics is also an "extract from" reality, not the thing in itself: first reality, then math and a billion other constructs. Langman,…
There is no such thing as a theory of everything: it is a contradiction in terms. A theory must extract from the whole of reality : it cannot explain the whole of reality. A mathematical proof of god? Mathematics is also an "extract from" reality, not the thing in itself: first reality, then math and a billion other constructs. Langman, Langan, whatever, is evidence that we truly don't know of what we speak by "intelligence": his high IQ is a dead end and cover for absurdity, because few understand it. Birds, among other animals, can do things we can't possibly do: does that make them more intelligent than humans? Religion as we have known it is superstition, and a nasty sort that kills, condemns, classifies human beings according to functions, and has supported every evil government known. It does not support communism or even socialism out of fear of its own redundancy. Langman's Langan's, whatever - this guy's insights are a little late in coming, even had they any merit whatever. They can't undo the fatal trajectory we have put ourselves on. No cultist insight - and that is what he is - will even mitigate the result. These beliefs are a panacea and haven for the guilty who cannot face their own guilt for the destructive role they played in this debacle.
There is no such thing as a theory of everything: it is a contradiction in terms. A theory must extract from the whole of reality : it cannot explain the whole of reality. A mathematical proof of god? Mathematics is also an "extract from" reality, not the thing in itself: first reality, then math and a billion other constructs. Langman, Langan, whatever, is evidence that we truly don't know of what we speak by "intelligence": his high IQ is a dead end and cover for absurdity, because few understand it. Birds, among other animals, can do things we can't possibly do: does that make them more intelligent than humans? Religion as we have known it is superstition, and a nasty sort that kills, condemns, classifies human beings according to functions, and has supported every evil government known. It does not support communism or even socialism out of fear of its own redundancy. Langman's Langan's, whatever - this guy's insights are a little late in coming, even had they any merit whatever. They can't undo the fatal trajectory we have put ourselves on. No cultist insight - and that is what he is - will even mitigate the result. These beliefs are a panacea and haven for the guilty who cannot face their own guilt for the destructive role they played in this debacle.